Sunday, February 12, 2012

Springhill Equity Partners-Leadership

http://springhillequity.com/about/leadership/

The SpringHill management team has 19 years’ experience of successful social investing in Africa and more than 45 years of strategy and business management experience in the world’s most competitive markets. They have cultivated strong, enduring personal and professional networks for deal origination and qualification in Africa.
Dr. Kim Tan
Dr. Kim Tan

Kim is the founder Chairman of SpringHill Management Ltd., a private equity and VC fund management company. SpringHill Management manages a Malaysian Fund, SpringHill Bioventures Sdn Bhd, which invests in emerging markets.

Kim is a director of Active Capital Trust Plc, a LSE listed investment trust company. He is the founder Chairman of AsiaPrise Biotech Sdn Bhd which operates the NCI Cancer Hospital in Malaysia, a subsidiary of TH Group Berhad. He is also a director of a number of listed and private biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the UK, USA, India and Malaysia. Kim is an advisor to a number of government agencies in Asia on biotechnology. He chairs the Research Expert Working Group for the Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) Life Science Forum.

Kim has been the driving force behind the Kuzuko Game Park project, which is now part of Inqo Investments, a social venture company based in South Africa, with plans to be floated on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Kuzuko combines job creation, environmental conservation and community transformation. The Kuzuko Game Park includes a “Big Five” game reserve in the malaria-free Eastern Cape and a five star luxury bush lodge managed by Legacy Hotels.  The game park and lodge have generated employment for 250 people in an area of 85% adult unemployment.

Kim is co-founder and trustee of the Transformational Business Network (TBN), a network of business people supporting micro, small, and medium enterprises in developing countries by contributing time and skills, mentoring developing entrepreneurs, and investing in growing businesses. TBN members are currently supporting 62 business projects that have created more than 20,000 jobs in 22 countries, with a total direct or indirect investment of £55 million.

Kim has a Ph.D in biochemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He is co-author with Lord Brian Griffiths of “Fighting Poverty through Enterprise”.
Steve Beck
Steve Beck

Steve Beck is co-founder and CEO of SpringHill Equity Partners. In addition to leading SpringHill, Steve is a part-time senior advisor to the John Templeton Foundation, conceiving and leading a research program on “franchising in frontier markets”. He has been published and quoted on philanthropy, social investing & international development in the Harvard Business Review (September 2007), New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and CBS Evening News.

Prior to SpringHill, Steve served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Geneva Global, Inc. from 2002 to 2007. Geneva Global is a philanthropic advisory firm providing independent research, advice, and grant management services to clients focused on international development. Under Steve’s leadership the firm became a recognized leader in international philanthropy, managing more than $80 million of grants in global health, human liberty, economic empowerment, education and conflict recovery. Roughly half of these grants were directed to initiatives in sub-Sahara Africa. Steve joined Geneva Global in an executive capacity in 2002, having consulted to the organization since its inception in 1999.

Prior to Geneva Global, Steve had twenty years experience in advising business leaders of global Fortune 200 companies on strategy, organization and change management. As Managing Director of Gemini Consulting (a division of Cap Gemini) from 1996-99, Steve led the company’s most profitable division with some 500 consultants and $200 million in revenues from nine offices in Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

From 2000 to 2002 Steve was a Managing Director and Partner of Monitor Group, an international strategy consulting and merchant banking firm.  In addition to co-leading the Group’s business in Europe/Middle East/Africa, Steve served on the Board of the Monitor Institute, which advises foundations and direct service organizations in the non-profit sector. Steve has thus advised and/or managed business operations in Africa since 1992.

Steve was educated at Stanford University and the London School of Economics. He is married with three daughters, and despite his Californian roots, lived in London from 1984 to 2002.

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